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(Trees burn, about this amount, every year 

This is the sort of misinformation that we can do without: https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/...-rate.html

- it's forest clearance time for agriculture.  

the intent of such a statement is clearly to get a rise. Ignored.

Trees have their cycle, as we have ours:  their carbon combines with oxygen (burns), then they separate the resulting carbon dioxide back into oxygen (animals:  breathe easy) and carbon (themselves, new generation) using sunlight.  This way is flashier than some, and people help it along so they get edible instead of just burnable plants in their diversion from the cycle.

This is obviously not true of the land is getting permanently cleared in the first place. The carbon dioxide for the most part does not get back into the earth and get locked up as carbon, but sinks into the ocean which as a result turns more acidic from the resulting carbonic acid.

BTW, "rain forest" doesn't burn - too wet (hydrogen pre-combined with the oxygen, but it's good as a low-temperature working medium).

Tell me you're joking

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Honestly, in the silly season if it weren't for fake news there'd be no "news" at all.  (And wouldn't *that* be a blessing!)

Quite an attitude